For example, “Black Barbie” re-creates Mamie and Kenneth Clark’s “ doll test ” from the 1940s, when the two psychologists showed kids a Black doll and a white doll — identical in every ...

The newest doll will come with a braided hair texture, pink eyeglasses and clothes with meaningful symbols to represent Down syndrome awareness. Black Barbie with Down syndrome will retail for $10.99.

Lagueria Davis hates dolls. At least that’s what the director of Netflix’s Black Barbie documentary (streaming now) says in the first few minutes of the film.

The first White Barbie debuted in 1959. The first four Black dolls were not official Barbie dolls but rather Black friends of Barbie and her buddy Ken, who was also White.

As a young girl in segregated Spartanburg, South Carolina, Kitty Black Perkins took a brown crayon to white paper dolls so their skin would match hers. “I seldom saw white people, and so it was ...

Also, when the youngsters were asked whether there was a Barbie that they considered to be the “real” Barbie, some identified the white, “perfect” doll because of her blonde, straight hair ...

The 2024 Fashionistas dolls, including the blind Barbie doll and Black Barbie doll with Down syndrome, are available online now and in-store this Summer at major retailers for $10.99.

Mitchell started on the assembly line at Mattel, the company behind Barbie, in 1955. At the beginning of the ’60s, Mitchell proposed the idea of a Black doll to Barbie’s creator, Ruth Handler.

Two new Barbie dolls with disabilities were announced on July 23, the first-ever blind Barbie doll and the second Barbie doll with Down syndrome, Mattel said in a press release.

The 2025 doll celebrates the rich heritage of Black Barbie through her dark brown skin and voluminous curly hair. The doll’s dress takes inspiration from its predecessor with its bright red ...

Honestly, this doll is so impeccable. The quality is absolutely great, and her overall look is to die for. I am getting so obsessed with these dolls, and I cannot stop looking thru.

Taking a walk down memory lane, I can remember walking around a store and not being able to find a Black doll that looked like me. A fact which many can attest to, “[a]s many Black kids growing ...